Richard McGarrah Helms

[Linda Minor]

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The 1893 Panic would create the impetus that would lead to the eventual takeover of Morgan interests by Harriman and Rockefeller investment syndicates. Most of America’s railroads had been placed in receivership as a result of the gold drain—culminating in E.H. Harriman’s acquisition of the Union Pacific railroad (previously owned by Jay Gould). In 1901 Harriman challenged James J. Hill for control of the John Murray Forbes CB&Q railroad; Morgan sided with Hill and lost the contest. Harriman then gained the support of Rothschilds agent Kuhn, Loeb as well as the Standard Oil group, which then included Oliver Payne and later his nephew Payne Whitney.

At his death in 1904, William C. Whitney left his fortune to son Harry (married to heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt) and to his daughter Dorothy. Harry was a director of Guaranty Trust (Morgan), while Dorothy was married to Willard Straight, a partner in the Morgan investment bank. According to Carroll Quigley, the Morgan group, which had been responsible for putting the capital together to finance the Bolsheviks in Russia, infiltrated the political left in the United States. [5] After J.P. Morgan’s death in 1913, partners Thomas W. Lamont and Henry P. Davison [Texan Jesse Jones, a close associate of Andrew Mellon who had been Sec. of Treas. in Woodrow Wilson administration had been mentored in financial intelligence ops by Davison in International Red Cross during WWI] used Willard Straight to work out a loan to Russia, while Dorothy Whitney Straight subsidized the “liberal press”—both The Nation and The New Republic . Payne Whitney inherited his uncle Oliver Payne’s Standard Oil stock and the social set that entailed.

The result of the rise of Rockefeller to dominance in the Federal Reserve meant that those companies in which the family was most heavily invested became the ones that the Rockefeller-controlled banks (Chase and CitiGroup) protected. The industries that Morgan dominated—such as U.S. Steel and General Electric—would become increasingly less important until by the end of World War II major emphasis would shift to oil, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

The Big Cheese Takes the Gold
But what can we say about Henry Stimson? In the beginning his power came from Morgan—through his control of Whitney, Root and Cleveland. But Stimson remained, even as Morgan’s position waned, and Rockefeller’s moon began to wax ever stronger. Stimson knew where all the bones were buried. As revealed by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, it was Stimson who first suggested to President Franklin Roosevelt at the end of World War II that all the recovered Axis war loot from the Nazis and Japanese be used to finance a “global political action fund.” [6]

Stimson managed this top secret project called Black Eagle “by delegating authority to four assistant secretaries of War: Robert Patterson, a lawyer and former federal judge; Harvey Bundy, Boston lawyer and Yale graduate; and two dynamos Stimson called his Heavenly Twins—John McCloy and Robert Lovett. What they all had in common was their close relationship to the Harrimans and Rockefellers.” [7] Though Allen Dulles was not one of Stimson’s inner circle, as attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell, which handled other legal work for the Rockefellers, he would become privy to the plan as well. [8]

We [referring to other articles I wrote for Sanders Research] have met Bundy and McCloy in previous articles about John Kerry’s family background. [Robert A.] Lovett was also from Skull and Bones (Yale 1918) and grew up with Averell and Bunny Harriman [Lovett's father was an attorney in Texas who moved to Houston to work for Baker & Botts before being hired to run both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads in New York for Harriman interests in about 1900-02.]. [9] He married the daughter of a senior partner of the Brown Brothers investment bank, which he helped to merge with W.A. Harriman & Co., for which Prescott Bush and his father-in-law worked—making its executive committee very top-heavy with Skull and Bones members. Robert Patterson—senior partner of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler—a Wall Street firm set up in 1938 as an offshoot of McCloy’s Milbank Tweed which handled Rockefeller’s banking and oil business—represented the Rockefeller philanthropies.

This Wall Street (mostly Skull and Bones) team began in 1945 with a “separate pool of black gold that put an extra floor under the postwar economy,” to make a concerted effort to keep “gold prices artificially high while discreetly using derivatives of this gold as a clandestine slush fund.” [10] Very little, it seems, had changed in the years since Morgan had worked with August Belmont, Jr. to stop America’s gold from draining to Europe. August Belmont IV stepped in to advise the Rockefellers on how to create a web of corporations out of natural gas discoveries and energy pipelines—a subject which also requires a separate article.

Stimson’s Wealth Came from Loomis and Thorne Investments

As we mentioned earlier in Can We Handle the Truth, Henry Stimson was very close to both Alfred Loomis and Landon Thorne, who not only made Stimson rich, but created, through stock manipulation of public utility companies, a slush fund that pre-dated the Black Eagle trust—a fund which financed the research of nuclear power without which we could not have bombed Japan. Thorne worked on his stock spinning out of an office at White & Case located at 14 Wall—the Bankers Trust Building—adorned with a pyramid atop J.P. Morgan’s penthouse. Thorne’s son, who would spend his entire career working for Bankers Trust, was John Kerry’s father-in-law. The elder Thorne had in 1911 married Loomis’ sister, Julia Atterbury Loomis. Thus, not only was Kerry tied to the Stimson network through his roommate Harvey Bundy III [see Untitled Aristocracy] , but also through his wife Julia, whose grandmother was a first cousin of Stimson.[11]

Bankers Trust—a Morgan subsidiary set up to manage trust funds of wealthy clients such as the Du Ponts and Astors—was incorporated in 1901 by the law firm of White & Case, which has represented it ever since. [12] The purchase of Bonbright & Co. by Loomis and Thorne had been underwritten by J.P. Morgan & Co., through its full control of General Electric in 1892. [13] Bonbright was used as a front for the Morgan bank (much as it had used Whitney in 1890) to finance rural electrification and expand electrical markets all over the world. Loomis joined Thorne at Bonbright in 1919, six years after J.P. Morgan had died. It was not coincidental that Benjamin Strong, the man named to head the New York Fed in 1914, came from Bankers Trust, since Morgan was then the equivalent of an American central bank.

All the utility companies Bonbright financed were taken public not long before the 1929 crash. Bonbright joined with the Morgan bank in issuing securities for a new holding company, United Corporation, which would control one-third of electric power in the eastern twelve states. The initial price of the stock was so inflated, the men later claimed they realized how massive the Wall Street bubble had become. As author Jennet Conant says, “quietly, over a period of months, Loomis and Thorne liquidated their remaining securities and converted everything into sound, long-term treasury bonds and cash. Then came Black Thursday. [14]

A year after leaving the bank, they sold their interest and placed the proceeds in a holding company managed by Thorne, who also would continue to manage investments for Stimson. In 1932, however, while they were still actively running the business, the grandson of the famous August Belmont, N.M. Rothschild’s American agent became an associate of the firm. The Who’s Who for August Belmont IV (1908-1995) notes that he was “with” Bonbright & Co. from 1932-42. At this point we can only speculate whether there was a secretive Rothschild alliance that would help explain the young men’s rapid rise in the world of high finance. In the years after 1942 Belmont would move to Dillon Read, where he would be at the center of every issue of securities involving natural gas in Texas, as well as all major pipeline companies in that state.

John Kerry’s Ties to Bankers Trust

You will recall that Landon Thorne, Sr. worked out of an office at the White & Case law firm, located in the Bankers Trust Building at 14 Wall Street, and that his son—father of John Kerry’s wife Julia—spent his entire career at Bankers Trust. In 1966, in fact, John Kerry designated his fiancee Julia Thorne as a beneficiary of his Navy life insurance, with her address as 14 Wall Street. He and Julia were married in 1970, shortly before her twin brother began grooming Kerry for his first run for Congress. Her father died in 1980. In 1988 she divorced Kerry—the same year the Senator issued the “Kerry Report” on Iran-Contra, in which he covered up the Mena drug-smuggling [subject of Terry Reed's book, Compromised, about the Clintons' involvement in Mena] that helped pay for the arms sent to Nicaragua. [15] We have never found out the entire truth of that operation.

Did John Kerry have connections through his marriage to Bankers Trust? What is the significance of the sale of Bankers Trust in 1999 to Deutsche Bank—ten years after Deutsche Bank acquired Morgan Grenfell UK?

We know that White & Case drafted the merger documents in 1999 to allow Deutsche Bank to buy out Bankers Trust (which had merged with Alex. Brown & Co.). Deutsche Bank had acquired Morgan Grenfell of the UK ten years earlier. Stocks on world markets had taken a 23% dive in October 1987, just two months after Alan Greenspan—appointed by President Reagan and sworn in by Vice-President George Bush—replaced Paul Volcker as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Greenspan at that time acknowledged his debt to his mentor, Dr. Arthur F. Burns—the Austrian-born economist appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1970 by Richard Nixon.

Burns had been at the Fed when Nixon and Treasury Secretary John Connally imposed wage and price controls and removed the gold backing on the dollar. [16] The result was that the dollar suffered its greatest loss in value since the Civil War. Burns left the Fed in 1978 and was subsequently appointed by Reagan as American ambassador to Germany, serving until 1985. [17]
The Gold Vanishes

What was the end result of the dollar’s decline?

According to the writers of Executive Intelligence Review , by 1981 the dollar had fallen to 60% of its pre-1971 level, while American stock equity fell 30% in terms of gold. Every major brokerage firm in the United States at that point began having serious financial problems. Lehman Brothers sold 7% of its equity to a Lugano-based Swiss bank functioning as a subsidiary of Banca Commerciale d’Italia (where the P2 Masonic lodge had been created). [18] Drexel Burnham Lambert sold out its entire capital to the Lambert family of Brussels, Belgian cousins of the Rothschilds. A.G. Becker of Chicago merged with the S.G. Warburg bank and Paribas to form Warburg-Becker-Paribas, which merged into Merrill-Lynch in 1984. In 1981, Salomon Brothers (investing arm of Citibank) merged with Phibro (the trading arm of the Oppenheimer interests); the name was changed to Salomon, Inc. in 1986, and is now a division within the Citibank corporate banking system.

Therefore, according to EIR, “Oppenheimers acquired effective policy control of the largest American commercial bank, Citibank.” [19] As we know, Citibank now controls the New York Fed, which controls America’s entire Federal Reserve System.

Henry Stimson had died in 1950, by which time his team in control of Project Black Eagle had managed to secrete gold in 176 accounts in 42 different countries. [20] Of Black Eagle’s original team and others who would have been taken into the circle: Robert Patterson died in 1952, Harvey Bundy in 1963, and Allen Dulles in 1969. Robert A. Lovett died in May 1986, and John McCloy would follow in March 1989. Robert B. Anderson, who was also a trustee, would depart the scene in August 1989, two years after William J. Casey, who expired in May 1987.

As the last of the Black Eagle trustees were fading away, others who took the side of the “old soldier,” General Douglas MacArthur, were appearing on the scene. “Private” organizations linked to elements of U.S. intelligence and anti-communists recovered more hidden gold from the Philippines. General John Singlaub—closely associated with the former World Anti-Communist League and the off-the-shelf intelligence operations associated with the Iran-Contra affair—was part of a recovery program known as the Nippon Star (a subsidiary to Nippon Electronics). [21] Also interested were former military and intelligence officers Ray Steiner Cline, CIA deputy director of operations; General John Vessey, the first man to rise through ranks from private to four-star general to chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1979-85; and General Robert Schweitzer, Reagan’s National Security Council chairman (Oliver North’s boss). [22]

Another insider in this group was General Erle Cocke, Jr., an alternate executive director of the World Bank, 1961-64, who died in 2000. Cocke was interviewed before his death by former banker, David Guyatt, who has written about his own experience with “Project Hammer,” a collateral trading program wherein “vast pools of unvouchered slush funds,” were transferred in 1989. Used to “generate funds to pay off debts on bullion certificates issued by certain metal trusts , the funds were siphoned off surreptitiously in order to rescue numerous major U.S. and other banks that by the latter half of the 1980s were tottering on the brink of bankruptcy.” [emphasis added] [23] It should be noted here that the Euro, which was introduced January 1, 2002, claimed to be backed by precious metals, presumably under the control of the “metal trusts” which benefited from the diversion of the gold to the Fed banks in 1989.

The October 1987 stock market crash occurred one year after the Iran/Contra scandal had hit the headlines. Oliver North was convicted in May 1989—at the same point in time that Project Hammer was taking place. The discovery was soon made that certain slush funds, or the gold used as their asset base, had disappeared. We may infer from Guyatt's research that the gold had been diverted by the U.S. Federal Reserve—primarily Citibank and other New York banks—which had suffered heavily from the global stock crash of 1987 and were on the verge of bankruptcy. [24]

An integral player in Project Hammer was Bankers Trust. Guyatt has been led to believe that all the gold certificates that arose from the World War II looted gold accounts were originated in the offices of White & Case—long-time attorney of the old Morgan subsidiary that handled trust funds of American oligarchs like the Astors and Belmonts.

As yet we are unable to explain whether John Kerry had knowledge of the reasons for the gold’s disappearance. We do know his committee protected the drug money-laundering operations of Barry Seal at Mena, Arkansas, that had been conducted with the protection of then-governor Bill Clinton as an operation run through the offices of then-vice-president George H.W. Bush. As a result, we know that the outcome of this year’s election had been pre-determined. Regardless of the victor, globalism is the ultimate winner. Under the Hegelian philosophy adopted by Skull and Bones, the scenario which makes the most sense is a shift purportedly to the left, which will advance the world closer to centralized control by European-based banks. Should that not happen in 2004, it is only a matter of time.